More a Man Than Anything

While my dad may not have taught me how to use
my hands, he did teach me how to use my heart,
and to me that makes him more a man than anything.

Justin Baldoni

Built-in Fear

If we can't eliminate fears, then what do we do with them? Well, we live with them. Like 'em or not. Because low-level or high, some degree of fear comes with the human package. It is built in. It is not going anywhere.

Judy Cohen

The Ultimate Fear

The fear of no-self is the mother
of all fears, the one upon which
all others are based. No fear is
so small or petty that the fear
of no-self isn't at its heart.
All fear is ultimately fear of no-self.

Jed McKenna

Show You Fear

I will show you fear
in a handful of dust.

T.S. Eliot

Life is the Great Teacher

I am so appreciative that the insights that come my way do not turn me into an emotionless thing with no personality. I enjoy all the facets of being a so-called "person" even though I know it is just a play of the elements. The ups and downs. The crazy intellectual games. The spiritual types, so careful with their catchphrases and jargon. I would trade all the spiritual nonsense for two French hens any day of the week. Enjoy. Life is the great teacher.

Gilbert Schultz

Ego As Is

None of them transcended personality. Escaping ego is not an option. So we may as well make friends with it. As is. And ironically that ego, and the mundane, and the disapproved-off, and the everyday trivialities just might be where freedom has lived all along, anyway.

Judy Cohen

Begin from the Inside

If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends.
If broken by an inside force, life begins.
Great things always begin from the inside.

Jim Kwik